Fri 3/18 Make-up: Read 36.7 (p 729) and answer 3 questions (in file) Wires with current move compasses - can magnets move wires? Build your own electric motor Examples of things in our houses with motors
Thu 3/17 Make-up: Read 36.4 (p 724-5) and answer 3 questions (in file) Review Right-hand rule for electromagnets OAS: Magnetic Express Electric vs. Magnetic Fields battle royale
Wed 3/16 Make-up: Use the internet and/or your brain to answer the following: 1) Define Gauss (a unit of measure), 2) If a subway rail has 650 V and human pee has 10,000 ohms of resistance, what is the current the person peeing on the rail might experience? 3) What kind of eel are eel-skin wallets made out of? Mythbusters: Peeing on the 3rd rail, Eel-skin wallets
Tue 3/15 Make-up: Read section 36.5 (p 726-7) and answer 3 questions (in file) Can you turn a magnet off? Yes! If it's an electromagnet. Ferromagnetic - only a few substances react to a magnet Built our own electromagnets More loops or stronger battery = stronger magnet The right-hand rule tells you which end is north
Mon 3/14 Make-up: Read section 36.1 (p 721-2) and answer 3 questions (in file) Tried magnets with each other: dipoles and forces Compasses detect magnetic forces Current in a wire moves a compass?!? Not all metals attract a magnet!
Thu 3/10 Make-up: Complete Electricity and Practical Math sheet for one appliance Added power to our concept sheet Calculated how much it would cost to run various appliances for a week
Mon 3/7 Make-up: Complete 3 pages of series and parallel simulator packet (in file) Review series and parallel Phet circuit simulator to build and test series and parallel circuits
Fri 3/4 Make-up: Read 35.3-4 and answer 3 questions (file) Open and closed for a cooling system How many bulbs can we light at once? Notes on series and parallel
Thu 3/3 Make-up: Read 35.1-2 and answer 3 questions (in file) How many ways can we make a light bulb light? Making flashlights Open vs. Closed for a circuit
Fri 2/26 Make-up: Read 34.4 and answer 3 questions (in file) Electrons in a wire demo and misconceptions Defining resistance The bicycle analogy, Making a prediction about circuits
Tue 2/23 Make-up work: Read section 34.2 and answer 3 questions (in file) Brainstorm what in the room uses electric current Defining terms: Charge, current, voltage Practice calculating current
Mon 2/22
Mythbusters - Water Stun Gun & Fire walking
Test & Project Make-up
Fri 2/19
Test #1 - Charges and Electric Fields
Thu 2/18
Jeopardy
Wed 2/17 Make-up work: Read section 33.3 and answer questions (in file) Review electric field lines Experiment: Will a cell phone ring when it is covered in foil? Half way covered? A closed conductor shields the inside from outside electric fields Looking at coaxial cables and cars struck by lightning
Fri 2/12 - Tue 2/16 Make-up work: Complete the PhET Electric Fields project at home or during lab time (need a computer that runs Java) Electric potential vs. Gravitational potential OAS: Arc Attack (Power Junkies #1) Work on the electric fields project
Thu 2/11 Make-up work: Voltage = Electric Potential worksheet (in file) Weight and height affect gravity's potential Charge and Voltage affect electric potential Measuring battery voltage: bigger one's have same V? Comparing volts: van de graaff, balloon on hair, and outlet
Wed 2/10 Make-up work: Read Section 33.2 (p. 666-7) and answer questions (in file) Force fields - they are not just science fiction! Arrows show from - to + and more / darker means stronger field Electric Field Hockey
Tue 2/9 Make-up: Read section 32.6 and answer 3 questions (in file) Why does the pith ball go back and forth??? What is an electroscope and how does it work? What is lightning?
Fri 2/5 & Mon 2/8 Make-up: Do the first page and a half of the lab - Summarize the 3 myths from http://mythresults.com/episode2 Review conductors and insulators, and grounding Follow the electrons lab & Mythbusters - Cell phone gas station
Thu 2/4 Make-up: Do the first page of CD32-2 Conductors allow charge to move freely: Movies show people getting electrocuted by being in water = good conductor Review the "smelly boat" analogy of how charges move on a conductor Building film cannister leyden jars Practicing with worksheet 32-2
Wed 2/3 - Snowstorm
Make-up day: Simulator and other make-up work
Tue 2/2 - Leslie out sick
Make-up: N/A
Simulator or Mythbusters work
Mon 2/1 - Leslie out sick Make-up work: Get a copy of the balloon simulator questions (in file) and complete (need a computer that will run java) Three ways to charge: Friction, contact, and induction Practice with the sweater/balloon simulator and John Travoltage
Fri 1/29 Make-up work: Question sheet on conservation of charge (in file) and complete the first column Conservation of charge: electrons are just transferred Three ways to charge: Friction, contact, and induction Sample questions practicing conservation of charge
Thu 1/28 Make-up work:Read 32.2 and answer 3 questions on back (in file) Places we've seen static charges White boards: Review what an atom is like and questions about charges OAS - Static Cat
Wed 1/27 Make-up work:Read 32.1 and answer 3 questions on back (in file) Tug of war: electric vs gravitational force Try finding positive and negative charging by comparing things to a balloon rubbed with wool Opposites attract and like charges repel
Tue 1/26 Make-up work: N/A Get to Know You sheet or tell me a dis/like from Physics Favorites Go over points, expectations What's an atom like - video clip on problems with atom models Summarize what an atom is like
Quarter #3: Electricity and Magnetism
Thu-Fri 4/7-8
Cosmos: The Electric Boy dialectic journal, Through the Wormhole
Make-up work time
Wed 4/6
Make-up: Get equipment and make a list of observations
Make observations about how iron dust behaves when near a magnet
Tue 4/5
Make-up: Use the reading packet to complete the question sheet
What are AC & DC in circuits? What are they used for?
Mon 4/4
Make-up: Articles about speakers in file
Making speakers
Fri 4/1
Make-up: Describe the myth and the results from here:
http://mythresults.com/episode29
Mythbusters: Cooling a six pack and ancient battery
Wed 3/30-Thu 3/31
PhET Generator Project
Tue 3/29
TEST #2: Circuits and Magnetism
Mon 3/28
Jeopardy Review: Circuits and Magnetism
SPRING BREAK!!! Mon 3/21-Fri 3/25
Fri 3/18
Make-up: Read 36.7 (p 729) and answer 3 questions (in file)
Wires with current move compasses - can magnets move wires?
Build your own electric motor
Examples of things in our houses with motors
Thu 3/17
Make-up: Read 36.4 (p 724-5) and answer 3 questions (in file)
Review Right-hand rule for electromagnets
OAS: Magnetic Express
Electric vs. Magnetic Fields battle royale
Wed 3/16
Make-up: Use the internet and/or your brain to answer the following: 1) Define Gauss (a unit of measure), 2) If a subway rail has 650 V and human pee has 10,000 ohms of resistance, what is the current the person peeing on the rail might experience? 3) What kind of eel are eel-skin wallets made out of?
Mythbusters: Peeing on the 3rd rail, Eel-skin wallets
Tue 3/15
Make-up: Read section 36.5 (p 726-7) and answer 3 questions (in file)
Can you turn a magnet off? Yes! If it's an electromagnet.
Ferromagnetic - only a few substances react to a magnet
Built our own electromagnets
More loops or stronger battery = stronger magnet
The right-hand rule tells you which end is north
Mon 3/14
Make-up: Read section 36.1 (p 721-2) and answer 3 questions (in file)
Tried magnets with each other: dipoles and forces
Compasses detect magnetic forces
Current in a wire moves a compass?!?
Not all metals attract a magnet!
Fri 3/11
Make-up: Worksheet CD 34-2 on Power problems (in file)
Circuit Puzzles
Power problems practice
Thu 3/10
Make-up: Complete Electricity and Practical Math sheet for one appliance
Added power to our concept sheet
Calculated how much it would cost to run various appliances for a week
Wed 3/9
Make-up: Go to http://mythresults.com/episode6 and summarize the myths and results
Lightning Strike Tongue Piercing
Tue 3/8
Circuitopia and Circuit puzzles
Mon 3/7
Make-up: Complete 3 pages of series and parallel simulator packet (in file)
Review series and parallel
Phet circuit simulator to build and test series and parallel circuits
Fri 3/4
Make-up: Read 35.3-4 and answer 3 questions (file)
Open and closed for a cooling system
How many bulbs can we light at once?
Notes on series and parallel
Thu 3/3
Make-up: Read 35.1-2 and answer 3 questions (in file)
How many ways can we make a light bulb light?
Making flashlights
Open vs. Closed for a circuit
Wed 3/2
Make-up: Read 34.5 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Testing our bicycle predictions with real circuits
Ohm's Law
Tue 3/1
Mythbusters - no make-up (extra credit)
Mon 2/29
Make-up: Read 34.5 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Testing our bicycle predictions with real circuits
Ohm's Law
Fri 2/26
Make-up: Read 34.4 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Electrons in a wire demo and misconceptions
Defining resistance
The bicycle analogy, Making a prediction about circuits
Thu 2/25 - Curriculum Groups = NO SCHOOL
Wed 2/24
Make-up: Do CD 34-1 page 1 (in file)
Pumped water analogy
Tue 2/23
Make-up work: Read section 34.2 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Brainstorm what in the room uses electric current
Defining terms: Charge, current, voltage
Practice calculating current
Mon 2/22
Mythbusters - Water Stun Gun & Fire walking
Test & Project Make-up
Fri 2/19
Test #1 - Charges and Electric Fields
Thu 2/18
Jeopardy
Wed 2/17
Make-up work: Read section 33.3 and answer questions (in file)
Review electric field lines
Experiment: Will a cell phone ring when it is covered in foil? Half way covered?
A closed conductor shields the inside from outside electric fields
Looking at coaxial cables and cars struck by lightning
Fri 2/12 - Tue 2/16
Make-up work: Complete the PhET Electric Fields project at home or during lab time (need a computer that runs Java)
Electric potential vs. Gravitational potential
OAS: Arc Attack (Power Junkies #1)
Work on the electric fields project
Thu 2/11
Make-up work: Voltage = Electric Potential worksheet (in file)
Weight and height affect gravity's potential
Charge and Voltage affect electric potential
Measuring battery voltage: bigger one's have same V?
Comparing volts: van de graaff, balloon on hair, and outlet
Wed 2/10
Make-up work: Read Section 33.2 (p. 666-7) and answer questions (in file)
Force fields - they are not just science fiction!
Arrows show from - to + and more / darker means stronger field
Electric Field Hockey
Tue 2/9
Make-up: Read section 32.6 and answer 3 questions (in file)
Why does the pith ball go back and forth???
What is an electroscope and how does it work?
What is lightning?
Fri 2/5 & Mon 2/8
Make-up: Do the first page and a half of the lab - Summarize the 3 myths from http://mythresults.com/episode2
Review conductors and insulators, and grounding
Follow the electrons lab
& Mythbusters - Cell phone gas station
Thu 2/4
Make-up: Do the first page of CD32-2
Conductors allow charge to move freely: Movies show people getting electrocuted by being in water = good conductor
Review the "smelly boat" analogy of how charges move on a conductor
Building film cannister leyden jars
Practicing with worksheet 32-2
Wed 2/3 - Snowstorm
Make-up day: Simulator and other make-up work
Tue 2/2 - Leslie out sick
Make-up: N/A
Simulator or Mythbusters work
Mon 2/1 - Leslie out sick
Make-up work: Get a copy of the balloon simulator questions (in file) and complete (need a computer that will run java)
Three ways to charge: Friction, contact, and induction
Practice with the sweater/balloon simulator and John Travoltage
Fri 1/29
Make-up work: Question sheet on conservation of charge (in file) and complete the first column
Conservation of charge: electrons are just transferred
Three ways to charge: Friction, contact, and induction
Sample questions practicing conservation of charge
Thu 1/28
Make-up work:Read 32.2 and answer 3 questions on back (in file)
Places we've seen static charges
White boards: Review what an atom is like and questions about charges
OAS - Static Cat
Wed 1/27
Make-up work:Read 32.1 and answer 3 questions on back (in file)
Tug of war: electric vs gravitational force
Try finding positive and negative charging by comparing things to a balloon rubbed with wool
Opposites attract and like charges repel
Tue 1/26
Make-up work: N/A
Get to Know You sheet or tell me a dis/like from Physics
Favorites
Go over points, expectations
What's an atom like - video clip on problems with atom models
Summarize what an atom is like